Imagining London, 1770-1900
By: Alan Robinson.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: English literature -- England -- London -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Authors, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London; Art, English -- England -- London; London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; London (England) -- Historiography; London (England) -- In literature; London (England) -- In art
Description: "Combining an overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of how Londoners sought to make sense of the social transformations of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It argues that they lived in two cities simultaneously: the actual spaces of the metropolis, which can be analysed into a socially stratified and gendered topography; and an imaginary 'London', an 'Unreal City' which both reflected and shaped their understanding of the 'real' metropolis, and influenced their actions in that environment." "Including 40 in-text illustrations, Imagining London, 1770-1900 provides the reader with a unique understanding of how London was imagined textually and visually in the late Georgian and Victorian period."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.